This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science. Includes 3 months' access to Oxford Dictionaries Pro at oxforddictionaries.com.

Offers a dictionary text, plus a Factfinder centre section giving information on people, places, and events, as well as thematic lists of facts. This dictionary covers the words you need for everyday use, and is useful for puzzle and crossword-solving. It is ideal for reference at home, at school, or in the office.

This new edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary combines a dictionary with encyclopedic information in a handy paperback format. It is the ideal reference book whether at home or in the office, offering all the benefits of a traditional dictionary with over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, guidance on grammar and usage in the shape of in-text notes, and thousands of example sentences showing words in use. Integrated into the dictionary are also over 4,700 entries on people and places highlighted on the page by way of a distinctive new design, while a generous supplement provides information on a wide range of subjects, from prime ministers and presidents to wedding anniversaries and alphabets.

A large print dictionary specially developed and designed with the help and support of RNIB.

Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and national variants.

An easy-to-use dictionary and thesaurus in one volume containing over 140,000 synonyms and antonyms.

Packed with more than 107,000 definitions, the revised and updated edition of this popular, portable dictionary is completely up to date in its coverage.

The New Oxford Dictionary of English was first published in 1998 and quickly established itself as the foremost single-volume authority on the English language. This is a major new edition, now without the New in the title, but with all the features that brought world-wide acclaim to the first publication. The Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence and the latest research fromthe Oxford English Corpus. The dictionary is unique in that it places the central and most frequent meanings of each word first, followed by secondary and technical senses, slang, idioms, and historical and archaic senses. There are over 500 boxed usage notes, giving guidance on all aspects of the language and backed up by extensive analysis of 100s of millions of words of real English. Featuring 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, this dictionary offers the most comprehensive coverage of English as it is actually used in the twenty-first century. There is also a brand-new set of appendices, covering topics including countries, heads of state, and chemical elements.

The most up-to-date dictionary of English available today offers over 65,000 concise and readable entries--10,000 new to this edition--and provides usage notes that reflect the very latest patterns in the way English is both written and spoken. This edition also now lists compound words as main headwords and clearly divides word senses, making it more accessible than ever.

This authoritative dictionary provides coverage across the field of linguistics, both the theoretical and the practical. In over 3,250 entries it clearly defines terms relating to phonetics, grammar, semantics, languages (spoken and written), dialects, and sociolinguistics.